Norman Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Sadie (Horowitz), a housewife and singer, and Max Perlmutter, a furniture store manager. His family was Jewish (from Hungary and Russia). He began his acting career in the theater, first "treading the boards" at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory in New York. Aspiring to work as a classical repertory player, he gradually shed his Brooklyn accent and became a busy stage actor in the 1930s; he next joined the original company of the Orson Welles-John Houseman Mercury Theatre. Lloyd was brought to Hollywood to play a supporting part (albeit the title role) in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942). Hitchcock, who later used the actor in Spellbound (1945) and other films, made him an associate producer and a director on TV's long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (then in its third year). In the course of his eight years on the series, Lloyd became a co-producer (with Joan Harrison) and then executive producer. He has since directed for other series (including the prestigious Omnibus (1952)) and for the stage, produced TV's Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Journey to the Unknown (1968), and played Dr. Auschlander in TV's acclaimed St. Elsewhere (1982).

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2016

On November 8, 2016, he became the first "Star Trek" actor to celebrate his 102nd birthday

2015

Norman Lloyd was 100 years old while filming his supporting role in the 2015 Judd Apatow / Amy Schumer comedy Trainwreck

2014

[who said in 2014 about his long-running marriage to Peggy Lloyd, who had died three years previously] A couple of days before she died, she asked how long we had been married

2012

[2012] I knew, way back before I came out here [must've been in the 30s], I'm buying a poet in New York named: Alfred Craigborn, mindful

2011

[in 2011] Every director who went from silents to talkies wrote with the camera

2010

, Jennifer Savidge, Stephen Furst, David Morse and Howie Mandel, were amongst the people who attended his 100th birthday party

2009

[2009] One day, Orson said we are going to do a play - I don't remember the name - but it was an Elizabethan dark tragedy

2007

[2007] This clarity is what's so sadly lacking today in pictures

2004

[2004] I'd been on the Federal Theatre in The Living Newspaper and I played prominent roles in the first three Living Newspapers

2003

[2003] Now, you begin to look at the cop from that vantage point, that the person who best understands the criminal mind-set is the policeman, and you've got an interesting dynamic

1993

He played Professor Richard Galen in Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Chase (1993)

1982

Elsewhere (1982) had to tackle] The show dealt with subjects never discussed before on television

1980

The friendship lasted for nearly 40 years until Hitchcock's death on April 29, 1980

1977

He would later be friends with him for 30 years until Chaplin's death on Christmas Day, 1977

1974

[1974] I know there's a lot of reverence for the BBC

1972

[1972] People come to us because they know we're working on the highest level

He has since directed for other series (including the prestigious Omnibus (1952)) and for the stage, produced TV's Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Journey to the Unknown (1968), and played Dr

1945

Hitchcock, who later used the actor in Spellbound (1945) and other films, made him an associate producer and a director on TV's long-running Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) (then in its third year)

1942

The thing is, if one looks at Saboteur again, which was made in 1942, when the war was on, you realize that this was - Hitch would never call this a 'political' picture

1937

True, it was the depths of the depression, 1937, so $6,000 represented a lot of money

1936

87 a week in the theater, back in 1936, before marrying Peggy Lloyd

1935

[who recalled telling the lady at the box office] Well, you know, right across the street, at the Longacre Theater, I played that theater in 1935 with one of the really great actors in the world, Pierre Fresnay

1930

Aspiring to work as a classical repertory player, he gradually shed his Brooklyn accent and became a busy stage actor in the 1930s; he next joined the original company of the Orson Welles-John Houseman Mercury Theatre

1929

Graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929, at age 14, with higher grades

1926

When Lloyd was 11 years old, an avid baseball fan, he watched Babe Ruth in the 1926 World Series

1916

The year was 1916 and there were little Charlie Chaplin's that you would wind up and they would walk

20

Julie answered to find Darryl Zanuck [head of 20th Century Fox], who said, 'You better get out of town